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Theater talk.

Title
Theater talk. Topsy turvy. Mike Leigh [videorecording] / Susan Haskins, executive producer ; Theater Talk Productions ; director, Adam Walker.
Publication
New York, c2000.

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Additional Authors
  • Leigh, Mike, 1943-
  • Riedel, Michael (Theater critic)
  • Haskins, Susan
  • Walker, Adam
  • Theater Talk Productions, Inc.
Description
1 videocassette (Betacam SP) (28 min.) : sd., col. SP; 1/2 in.
Summary
Writer and director Mike Leigh discusses his film Topsy-turvy with Theater talk co-hosts Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins. The film is about Gilbert & Sullivan and the creation of their opera The Mikado. Leigh speaks about his desire as a filmmaker to depict the Victorian period in which the story is set, and also to portray the painstaking struggle involved in putting together a theatrical production. Leigh discusses his efforts to accurately portray lyricist/librettist W. S. Gilbert and composer Sir Arthur Sullivan, as well the major performers of the D'Oyly Carte company; his casting of Allan Corduner, an accomplished musician, as Sullivan; and how his film evolved out of a series of improvisational sessions with the actors. Leigh speaks also about his film career, and why he prefers directing for film over the theater.
Series Statement
Theater talk
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Television.
  • Talk shows.
  • Interviews.
Note
  • Credits at end of videocassette.
  • This is episode #613 of Theater talk.
Performer (note)
  • Interviewers: Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins.
Event (note)
  • Videotaped in the CUNY-TV studios at The Graduate School & University Center/CUNY, New York, N.Y., New York, N.Y. on Jan. 7, 2000. First aired Feb. 11, 2000.
Call Number
NCOX 1985
OCLC
179922137
Title
Theater talk. Topsy turvy. Mike Leigh [videorecording] / Susan Haskins, executive producer ; Theater Talk Productions ; director, Adam Walker.
Imprint
New York, c2000.
Series
Theater talk
Performer
Interviewers: Michael Riedel and Susan Haskins.
Event
Videotaped in the CUNY-TV studios at The Graduate School & University Center/CUNY, New York, N.Y., New York, N.Y. on Jan. 7, 2000. First aired Feb. 11, 2000.
Local Note
Gift of Susan Haskins.
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Added Author
Leigh, Mike, 1943- interviewee.
Riedel, Michael (Theater critic), interviewer.
Haskins, Susan, interviewer.
Haskins, Susan, producer.
Walker, Adam, director.
Theater Talk Productions, Inc.
Haskins, Susan, donor.
Research Call Number
NCOX 1985
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